# Can I rename "system" user permanently?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-rename-system-user-permanently/14909>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [April 20, 2014, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-rename-system-user-permanently/14909 "2014-04-20T14:51:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![ohlafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7cd45c/32.png) [@ohlafl](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ohlafl)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-rename-system-user-permanently/14909/17 "2017-06-07T11:21:20Z")

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At our forum we’re trying to build personas around the system and bot user which are in line with the theme of the forum. It works very well to rename these users and change their profile but I wonder if there’s any way that I can make these changes persistent when updating the forum?

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